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2018 Morton County, ND Power Outage Report
In 2018, customers in Morton County, ND went without power for an average of 0.8 hours, a total of 14K customer-hours (North Dakota average 0.7 hours). That ranks 17th worst of 31 North Dakota counties and 2407th of 2,798 nationally.
Compared with ND, the US and 2017
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of North Dakota customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Morton County, 2018
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | July 3, 2018 10:15 | July 3, 2018 20:45 | 10h 30m | 1,923 | 5,726 |
| 2 | March 7, 2018 13:45 | March 7, 2018 14:45 | 1h | 1,020 | 1,020 |
| 3 | September 17, 2018 17:30 | September 17, 2018 18:15 | 45m | 956 | 717 |
| 4 | September 25, 2018 05:30 | September 25, 2018 07:45 | 2h 15m | 934 | 2,047 |
| 5 | August 19, 2018 06:00 | August 19, 2018 08:45 | 2h 45m | 926 | 2,531 |
| 6 | June 1, 2018 23:15 | June 2, 2018 01:30 | 2h 15m | 569 | 435 |
| 7 | June 29, 2018 06:45 | June 29, 2018 11:45 | 5h | 463 | 253 |
| 8 | February 20, 2018 14:45 | February 20, 2018 15:15 | 30m | 455 | 228 |
| 9 | March 23, 2018 17:30 | March 23, 2018 20:00 | 2h 30m | 343 | 435 |
| 10 | August 9, 2018 23:30 | August 10, 2018 04:15 | 4h 45m | 176 | 305 |
Outage episodes by size in 2018: 10 reached 100+ customers, 2 reached 1,000+ customers, 0 reached 10,000+ customers.
Utility reliability filed with the EIA
SAIDI (average outage time per customer) and SAIFI (average interruptions per customer) that utilities serving Morton County reported on EIA Form 861 for 2018, or their most recent earlier filing. Utility-wide figures, not county-specific.
| Utility | EIA year | SAIDI | SAIFI | SAIDI excl. major events | SAIFI excl. major events |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| WAPA-- Western Area Power Administration | - | - | - | - | - |
| Montana-Dakota Utilities Co | - | - | - | - | - |
| Mor-Gran-Sou Electric Coop Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
About this data
- Outage figures come from DOE/ORNL EAGLE-I, which records customers out by county every 15 minutes. EAGLE-I tracked about 51% of North Dakota's customers in 2018; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 19,085 customers (ORNL modeled county customer count), including major storm days. It is comparable across counties but is not the SAIDI a utility files.
- An outage event is a continuous stretch with customers out; counts at 100, 1,000 and 10,000+ use its peak.
- Years loaded: 2015–2025. Morton County has data for 2017–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Morton County, ND annual power outage report, 2018, data as of Oct 3, 2026 02:41 UTC, sources: DOE EAGLE-I (https://eagle-i.doe.gov/); EAGLE-I modeled customer counts (MCC) (https://figshare.com/). https://massoutage.com/reports/2018/north-dakota/morton-county